Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | August 11, 2025

*The Israeli Battle-Tested-Laboratory received – with much gratitude! – the initial F-15 (Boeing) and F-16 (Lockheed-Martin) in 1976 and 1980 respectively.  Since that time, for 45-50 years, the Israeli Battle-Tested Laboratory and Showroom of the US defense and aerospace industries and Armed Forces has significantly improved these fighter jets – and the US air force’s battle tactics – through the uniquely intense operational use of the aircraft (due to the uniquely violent Middle East).

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Martin Sherman

President Donald Trump signs a document alongside President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan in the Oval Office, Friday, August 8, 2025. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

(The Abraham Accords were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first administration; he has made it clear that his new administration will seek expanding them- Forbes, March 8, 2025.)

“I wish to underscore our support for President Trump’s vision and efforts to promote peace . . . including in our region. We also share common values. . .  and remain hopeful that U.S.-Azerbaijan relations will reach a new level during his Presidency”– Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, @presidentaz

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Peloni

On Sunday’s show, Mark opens with a detailed discussion and explanation of the authority of the president and the circumstances under which that authority can be used to transform congressional legislation into law.

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Peloni:  This is an important interview with Brig. Gen. (ret.) Yossi Kuperwasser.  Beyond explaining that there are no good options in Gaza, and how Israel should move forward in taking Gaza, he shares an important insight into the anti-Israel campaigns being waged against Israel.  Referencing the recent JISS conversation which he hosted with Alan Dershowitz, Adam Milstein, and Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Kuperwasser explains the importance of using intelligence in dealing with the anti-Israel campaigns, adding that it is too laborious and too delayed to respond to the attacks launched against Israel, and that by using Israel’s intelligence assets, these attacks can be anticipated and responses could be put forward in real time, rather than waiting days or weeks for the facts surrounding the claims made against Israel.  

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa 

Contrary to the corrupt state of today’s Orwellian language, Israel’s enemies are not “Palestinians,” “Islamists,” “Radical Extremists” or even “terrorists.” These terms are deceitful and for that antisemitic.

Palestinian – A nationality empty of all identifiable content. There is no Palestinian language unique to this alleged nationality. Claiming to be at home in Palestine for thousands of years, they have no knowledge of Palestine’s borders. Article 2 of their Palestine Covenant (1964) defined the geography of Palestine as the map drawn up by the League of Nations in 1922. In other words, their idea of the shape of Palestine is what the West’s imperial powers taught them. No Arab had any idea of what Palestine looked like.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI | August 10, 2025

In the 10th Aug 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli researchers have discovered how to turbo-charge the immune system.
• Israeli scientists have grown a kidney in the lab to 34-week maturity.
• Israel won an overall top 10 result at both math & chemistry student Olympiads.
• Israelis have harvested grapes from 1,500-year old seeds found in the desert.
• The products and services of three Israeli startups have just gone global.
• The world’s earliest burial site has been discovered in Israel.
• Jewish Sabbath laws have been changed to approve use of bionic limbs.

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Peloni:  Tammy Bruce, former author and Fox News contributor, has been nominated by Pres. Trump to be his UN Ambassador after Rand Paul blocked Mike Waltz’ nomination from moving forward.  Below is an interview which Bruce conducted with I24 several months ago which provides a great deal of context for her new role and he affection for Israel and the Jewish people.  Notably, the pro-Iran cabal masking as MAGA raises serious objections to Bruce, specifically over her comment in this interview where she describes Israel as the greatest country in the world.

Peloni: Israel Advocacy Movement has been doing important work as he engages and exposes real advocates of evil from every walk of life.  His latest is an interview with a former Red Cross doctor whose makes the case for Israel and against the Red Cross in the same moment.

Arlene Kushner | August 10, 2025

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IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Peloni:  Highly recommended article.  The catcalls from the combined Leftist-Islamist effort to demonize Israel must be ignored.  The instructions of Western leaders, whose own nations are growingly controlled by this Leftist-Islamist monstrosity, must be ignored.  Israel must act as if her only path towards survival was to find a way to break the cycle which is the foundation of the old conceptzia, for both her and the Pals who have been weaponized against her.  This requires strength and sanguinity to replace the servitude and self doubt which has held the Jewish State in a position of suffering existential threats for decades now.  We know what needs doing, so all that is lacking is the will to actually do it.

When it comes to “Palestinians,” suddenly resettlement is forbidden.

Jeff Ballabon 

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https://www.jns.org/israel-must-end-the-palestinian-exception/

Peloni: Exactly!

Avi Abelow

Photo by Hudson Institute – https://www.flickr.com/photos/hudsoninstitute/30498881961/, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Let me be clear: I totally stand by our people, our soldiers, and our leadership as they are defending us with strength, clarity, and a vision rooted in Jewish destiny in this war, overcoming the deep state powers in the military, legal establishment and media that have made it harder to fight this war. But today, I write this with a heavy heart, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom I’ve explained and defended many times, is making two critical mistakes that I wish he wouldn’t be making.

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Religious Zionism, Jewish Power MKs threaten elections if Netanyahu plan falls short of total Hamas defeat

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 10, 2025

Finance Minister and Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich voted against the proposal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have the IDF take control of the entire Gaza Stip, and later criticized Netanyahu, saying he has “lost faith” that the prime minister “can and wants to lead the IDF” to do so.

Smotrich strongly attacked Netanyahu’s proposal in a video statement uploaded to ?, saying it misleads both the Israeli public and the reservists, because it its goal is not a complete and final victory over Hamas, rather it is only intended to increase pressure on Hamas to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal.

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | August 10, 2025

Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has essentially accused CBS News of leaving so much of an interview with him on the cutting room floor that it effectively changed the tenor of the interview. CBS News’s goal was obvious: To make Israel look genocidal and to make the Trump administration look either feckless or complicit.

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Peloni: Had this regime been removed from power, their influence extending to Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza and the region could have been ended by now.  The determination to keep Israel from seeking victory in battle will be seen to have a very unfortunate consequence, and for more than just Israel.  This regime must be ended.

Janatan Sayeh | August 8, 2025

Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

In Iran, espionage trials have become a form of theater in which political prisoners face very real executions. It’s an attempt by the regime to mask its failure to stop Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, from operating within its borders during June’s 12-day war. It is also an attempt to cow a population primed for unrest.

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Peloni:In watching this young man’s challenging comments before the world, it calls to mind the fact that real victims of real famines have never had their issues addressed with such resolve as has the fact-checked-false-famine claimed to exist in Gaza.  As people are abandoned in Gaza, under the duress of a terror regime, blocked from exiting the hell of Gaza, the world is flooding that city state with multiple venues of aid, dropping it from the sky, passing it out personally, and shipping it in via thousands of trucks daily…and yet, there is no famine in Gaza and never was.  How despicable is it to have billions of dollars of food assets sent to the terror hub of Hamas, while ignoring the real famine of the hostages in Gaza for the past two years.

Yet in lands far distant from the Jewish state, there are real famines taking place today, famines which have existed for years, resulting in thousands of deaths, all of which have failed to gain the interest of the world in anything remotely approaching the effort to keep the non-starving Gazans fed.

This calumny must end, and so too the fake campaign to end hunger in Gaza.  Ship that food to Yemen or any of the countless other realms which are in fact suffering famine, and decimate the regime in Gaza once and for all, freeing the Gazans to leave Gaza under their own initiatives while allowing Israel to live without the continued weaponization of the Gazans against Israel under such false pretexts as the notion that Gaza is the most famine stricken land in the world.

Peloni:  Every plan which is motivated by the return of the hostages rather than completing victory over Gaza is fraught with error and destined to surrender to Hamas in exchange for the hostages.  This is why the war still persists.  It is why the existential threat in Gaza is still in power.  And this is why victory stands at odds with the return of the hostages.

We have nothing to lose and so much more to gain if Israel moves ahead and annexes the Gaza Strip.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF | AUGUST 9, 2025 

An IDF soldier operates in Beit Hanun, Gaza Strip, August 7, 2025.

(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

Peloni:  As much as Israel is dependent upon German arms, Germany is coincidentally dependent on its arms sales, perhaps explaining the qualifying remark of the embargo limited to “all weapons that could serve the IDF in fighting in the Gaza Strip are banned from export.”  Germany’s economy is no longer the robust vehicle of industry which it once was, making it dependent upon those industries which it still manages to entice its customers.  Still, its treatment of Israel will come to signal how fickel and whimsical its reliability has become of late, which may have a great affect upon future contracts with more than just Israel.  Additionally, this foolish policy likewise displays a coincidental need to project the German govt’s support of such a policy to the growing impact of the German Muslim community.  It is doubtful if Germany will ever recover from Merkel’s betrayal of replacing the German, and European, people with the fleeing masses of North Africa.

Pamela Geller | August 8, 2025

Eighty years after the end of the Holocaust the German Chancellor in a dramatic statement announced: “Germany will not approve until further notice the export to Israel of military equipment that can be used in Gaza.” (Mark Zell)

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